04/21/2010
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"I lay before Congress communications just received from the plenipotentiaries of the United States charged with negotiating peace with Great Britain, showing the conditions on which alone that Governm..."
"I transmit to Congress, for their information, copies of a letter from Admiral Cochrane, commanding His Britannic Majesty's naval forces on the American station, to the Secretary of State, with his an..."
"The American people will face it with the undaunted spirit which in their revolutionary struggle defeated his unrighteous projects."
"His barbarous policy has not even spared those monuments of the arts and models of taste with which our country had enriched and embellished its infant metropolis."